Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke up to 7.1 admin.php cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke up to 7.1. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file admin.php. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2004-1842. The attack can be initiated remotely. Additionally, an exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Francisco Burzi PHP-Nuke up to 7.1 (Content Management System). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file admin.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Php-Nuke 6.x through 7.1.0 allows remote attackers to gain administrative privileges via an img tag with a URL to admin.php.

The weakness was released 12/31/2004 by Janek Vind with waraxe (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.theaimsgroup.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2004-1842 since 05/04/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:admin.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15596), Exploit-DB (23835), SecurityFocus (BID 9895†) and Secunia (SA11195†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• Francisco Burzi

Name

• PHP-Nuke

Version

• 6.0
• 6.5
• 6.5 Beta1
• 6.5 Final
• 6.5 Rc1
• 6.5 Rc2
• 6.5 Rc3
• 6.6
• 6.7
• 6.9
• 7.0
• 7.0 Final
• 7.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://bitbucket.org/phpnuke/phpnuke

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.7

VulDB Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.7
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

03/16/2004 🔍
03/24/2004 +8 days 🔍
12/31/2004 +282 days 🔍
12/31/2004 +0 days 🔍
05/04/2005 +124 days 🔍
03/09/2015 +3596 days 🔍
05/05/2025 +3709 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: bitbucket.org

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: Janek Vind
Organization: waraxe
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1842 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1842
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22931
X-Force: 15596 - PHP-Nuke IMG tag allows elevated privileges
SecurityFocus: 9895 - PHP-Nuke Image Tag Admin Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 11195 - PHP-Nuke Script Insertion Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/09/2015 15:52
Updated: 05/05/2025 00:03
Changes: 03/09/2015 15:52 (53), 06/22/2018 08:01 (7), 05/05/2025 00:03 (27)
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